Brandon Prince Bishop, the holders of the Durham County Trophy, won comfortably 5-0 away to Darlington DSRM.

It took Michael Fort only a minute to put them ahead with a great volley from eight yards. David Fort hit the second with a thunderous shot from 20 yards and after the break John Templeton made it 3-0 with a glancing header. Paul Webster hammered home a penalty before a solo effort from Gavin Bell five minutes before the end sealed the win for Brandon.

Coxhoe Athletic were forced to work hard to get into the next round of the Trophy with a 3-2 home win against Winlaton Hallgath. Winlaton went into the lead when a bad clearance by Coxhoe's keeper went straight to Stephen Glendenning who hit the ball straight past him into the empty net. Ralp Petitjean equalised for Coxhoe in the second half, heading in a great inswinging corner from Kevin Bush. Glendenning was again on the scoresheet, restoring Winlaton's lead with a neat chip over the advancing keeper. Coxhoe then equalised when Dean Smithson rose to head home a Kevin Bush free kick.

With the score level at the end of 90 minutes, the match went into extra time. Ten minutes into the first half of extra time, Lee Atkinson won the tie for Coxhoe, scoring the crucial golden goal heading in from a corner.

Hartlepool Town beat a strong Belford House outfit to make progress into the next round. On the scoresheet for Hartlepool in a 3-2 win were Stephen Bell and Geoff Cooper (2).

Shildon Railway made it to the next round with a convincing 5-0 win at home to Durham City Reserves. Durham were very disappointing throughout the game, but credit to Shildon who played some great football at times. Kevin Hamilton got the first three goal of the match. He scored two penalties and sealed his hat-trick with a great solo effort - slipping the ball past two defenders before slotting the ball home. Neil Robinson then got in on the act, scoring a brace to make the final result 5-0.

Simonside SC defeated Darlington The Albion 7-3. On the scoresheet for the Social were David Basham who got a hat-trick, Ray Simpson (2), Mark Bonner and Michael Ord. Andrew Western (2), and Gavin Bell were on the score sheet for the Albion in an entertaining game.

Whitehill FC won their tie 4-3 away to Billingham Wanderers to make up the six teams in the league to go into the quarter final draw of the Durham Trophy. Only two teams, Hebburn Reyrolles from the Northern Alliance League and Hartlepool FC from the Teesside League, are a threat to one of the six.

Hartlepool Town won the trophy in 2001-02 and Brandon Prince Bishop won it in 2002-03. The League hopes it will have a team winning for a third term.